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Local Caltech-linked startups

Many local startups have Caltech ties. Here are some of these ventures in the areas of AI and robotics, computing and communications, energy, healthcare, manufacturing and materials, and space exploration, as well as multi-industry companies.

A robot that can fly, roll and walk stands on its four wheels on a concrete bridge near plants

AI and robotics
3Laws
Elementary
Miso
Toofon, Inc. / Soaring
Virtualitics

An illustration of Ytterbium atoms relevant to research by Andrei Faraon

Computing and communications
Chascii
GuRu Wireless
HEPT Lab, Inc.
hQphotonics, Inc.
OEwaves

an array of batteries

Energy
Flion Energy
Fluid Efficiency
HGenium
Parthian Energy
SAFCell
Sienza Energy

A human blastocyst expressing GFP in some cells (green), and stained to reveal the cell membranes (orange) and nuclei (blue).

Health care
Avicena / Ventric Health
Equilibrio
FastDetect
Golden Eye Bionics, LLC
Molecular Instruments
Port Therapeutics
Protomer Technologies
Replenish, Inc.
Spatial Genomics
StrokeDx
Xdemics
Xencor

A montage of infrared photos and a metallic-glass rod before heating and molding (left), a molded metallic-glass part (middle), the final part trimmed of excess material (right).

Manufacturing and materials
Amorphology
Glassimetal Technology
NanoClear Technologies

An artist's rendering of the NuSTAR telescope

Space exploration
Continuum
Helicity Space

Then Caltech-sophomore Chen Chang in a summer internship at IdeaLab in 2015

Multi-industry
Idealab
Materia (Now a subsidiary of ExxonMobil Chemical)
Protabit